People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.
Equity is the only acceptable goal
It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
The only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth. '" "What about 'More, Gareth'?" "He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable.
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. ' If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.